Flexi Says: • Reptiles have scales all over the body, whereas birds have scales on the legs and the rest of the skin is covered with feathers. • Almost all extant reptiles are carnivores, but birds have many different types of food habits. • Birds have wings as forelimbs, reptiles have forelimbs (most of them have no limbs at all) • Reptiles are ectothermic whereas birds are endothermic.
